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	'title' => "Gathering $a[GSM] carrier pamphlets",
	'body' => <<<END
<p>
	I was supposed to ask eBay to step in yesterday and help with the the seller of my new mobile case, as they still haven&apos;t written back to me, but between forgetting for the first part of the day and being busy later in the day, I decided to give them an extra day to respond.
	I still hadn&apos;t gotten a response today though, so I asked eBay for help.
	eBay said that they&apos;d get back to me within forty-eight hours, so I expected a two-day wait, but they got back to me within the day.
	They decided to settle the case in my favor and issue a full refund.
	They said to log into my PayPal account to receive the refund, but I didn&apos;t use a PayPal account to make the purchase.
	On PayPal&apos;s end, it had been an account-free transaction.
	I did receive a letter from PayPal, but the letter was written in Chinese or something for some reason.
	I couldn&apos;t read it! I&apos;ve reached out to PayPal support to try to get a translation of it.
	I&apos;m not sure why they decided to send the letter in Chinese though.
	My billing address is clearly in the United States, so the two most likely languages that I&apos;d be able to read are English and Spanish.
</p>
<p>
	While I remembered to deal with eBay support yesterday (just not right when I woke up) and decided to put that off for another day, I completely spaced it and forgot that my university orientation was supposed to begin yesterday as well.
	I logged into the school today and completed this week&apos;s orientation lesson up to the assigned readings.
	I&apos;ll complete the assigned readings tomorrow, then continue the next section of the orientation the next day.
</p>
<p>
	My mother left today for a job interview and a social event.
	They&apos;re not yet sure when they&apos;ll be getting back.
	Since they were gone, Vanessa and I took the opportunity to walk around town gathering $a[GSM] carrier pamphlets.
	It might not be too late to get our mother off of Verizon and onto a $a[GSM]-based carrier, provided that I can prove that the $a[GSM]-based carriers have better deals.
	In particular, we needed the MetroPCS and Cricket plan pamphlets, but we grabbed any $a[GSM] pamphlet that we could find.
	I&apos;ve sorted them into three groups too.
	The first group consists of the two pamphlets that we were aiming for.
	I think that these are the most appealing candidates.
	The second group consists of three almost-as-good plans, but each has a flaw of some sort.
	One plan is slightly cheaper, but is postpaid instead of prepaid.
	The other two are just as cheap as the main two plans, but have less high-speed data.
	The third and final group consists of every other $a[GSM]-based carriers&apos; pamphlets that we could get.
	Depending on how much information my mother wants, I can easily provide concise or full information.
</p>
<p>
	Vanessa and I also discussed the possibility of a new nickname for Vanessa.
	Our mother doesn&apos;t like that Vanesa prefers the name &quot;Vanessa&quot; over their legal name, so I&apos;ve got to avoid using that name when they&apos;re around.
	However, if we can somehow get the nickname &quot;Loch Ness monster&quot; to stick, I can call them &quot;Nessie&quot;.
	Our mother will think that it&apos;s a reference to the Loch Ness monster, but Vanessa and I will know that I mean it closer to &quot;&apos;Nessa&quot;, a shortened version of their preferred name.
	Getting the nickname &quot;Loch Ness monster&quot; to stick though is a bit of a long shot.
</p>
<p>
	<strong>*Note*:</strong> The original journal entry for this date was lost due to carelessness.
	It was reconstructed on <a href="/en/weblog/2016/08-August/19.xhtml">2016-08-19</a> and may not contain all of the information that the original journal entry had.
</p>
END
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